Book
Amazon gold rush: markets and the Mundurucu Indians
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 2001 • Pages:
By: Burkhalter, Steve Brian.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation examines in detail the profound changes that have taken place in Mundurucu society as the result of contact with the outside world. Not only have introduced concepts of health care and education affected them greatly, but also their economic relations with traders, merchants, Indian agents, missionaries, Brazilian peasants, and gold miners have done much to reshape their thoughts and actions. Despite the affects of acculturation on the society in which many of their former customs have fallen into disuse, the ethnic identity of the Mundurucu as a people has been largely retained , except in fringe areas where some members of the society pass themselves off as rural Brazilian peasants. Burkhalter suggests that their cultural persistence as a people has depended upon strong female groups in individual villages, as a result of matrilocal residence, which has had a tendency to conserve traditional cultural patterns. However, the author notes in conclusion that the Mundurucu economic relations with the outside world '…ties them ever more firmly into the national and international economies and threatens their integrity as an ethnic group' (introductory, p. vii).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Forest products
- Mining and quarrying
- External trade
- Division of labor by gender
- Public welfare
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mundurucu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- January 1979-March 1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1979-1981
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Upper Tapajós River area, State of Para, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Steve Brian Burkhalter
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Columbia University, 1982
- UM8307555
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-214)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Munduruku Indians